[Sca-cooks] Heston Blumenthal

[James Prescott]

He freely says that he is "inspired by".  He makes no real pretense that 
his stuff is particularly accurate.  He is in it for the fun.  And so 
are his guests.


Thorvald


On 2013-02-23 18:59, Ana Valdés wrote:
> Thank you! The guy don't seem very caring about to keep things Tudor :) he made a purée of bananas to eat with peas in liquid nitrogen :)
> Or maybe I am wrong and the Tudors already had bananas?
> Ana
>
> Skickat från min iPhone
>
> 23 feb 2013 kl. 23:50 skrev "Terry Decker"<t.d.decker at att.net>:
>
>> I wouldn't call the recipe Tudor.  It's Spanish, post-Elizabethean, from Franciso Martinez Montino's Arte de cocina (1611).  You can find the recipe in Ken Albala's Cooking in Europe 1250-1650. http://books.google.com/books?id=2W2YuU3b_BIC&pg=PA116&lpg=PA116&dq=blancmange+frogs&source=bl&ots=lJYMTWHKCW&sig=QT7M-Rz2k-R378ek4RjnCDX0Wv8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MHApUdfJEc-rqQHS4oDwAQ&ved=0CDIQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=blancmange%20frogs&f=false
>>
>> Bear
>>
>>
>>> I am not familiar with him or his program but I found his show zapping unknown channels.
>>> He did a Tudor banquet and I wanted ask you if he was right when he made a blancmange with frogs!!
>>> I have never heard about it and I could not find any period source online.
>>> He spoke about a Harlein manuscript with recipes about how to make a cockatrice made of different animals.
>>> His show wAs very entertaining, I wanted only check his sources and his knowledge.
>>> Ana
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Sca-cooks mailing list
>> Sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org
>> http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/sca-cooks-ansteorra.org
> _______________________________________________
> Sca-cooks mailing list
> Sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org
> http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/sca-cooks-ansteorra.org